Branding-tool.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

M. P. SULLIVAN.

BRANDING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1905.

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NTTE STATES PATNT OFFTQF.

BRANDlNG-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed June 1,1905. Serial No. 263,343.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, MORTIMER P. SULLI- VAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Branding-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for branding letters or figures upon the surface of cloth, wood, leather, or upon any article which may be affected by the impression of a hot iron thereon.

The device is particularly adapted for use in laundries, hotels, and in households where it is desired to brand linen, such as towels, handkerchiefs, and the like.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification, and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of my improved branding-tool in which rotary type-disks are used. Fig. 2 is a section, partly in elevation, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an underneath plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation viewed from the right-hand side of Fig. 1.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 10 is a hollow casing, 11 vent-apertures, and 17 17 a series of typedisks journaled to rotate upon a shaft 31, extending longitudinally of the hollow casing 10 and supported in the end walls thereof. The type-disks 17 are prevented from rotating by the slidable bottom plates 122, which are adapted to slide in ways 32, provided in the bottom 12 of the casing 10. The plates 122, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, slide transversely of the series of type-disks 17 and are held against sliding movement by the lock-plates 18, pivoted to screws 14, fast to the casing 10.

A U -shaped gas-burner 19 is provided upon the interior of the casing 10 and consists of a hollow U-shaped plate provided with a boss 21, having screw-threaded engagement with a gas-pipe 22, said gas-pipe being locked to the casing 10 by the lock-nut 23. The gas-burner 19 is provided with slots 20 20, which are arranged adjacent to and in alinement with the type-disks 17.

The manner in which my improved branding-tool hereinbefore specifically described is used and operated is as follows: The type are set by rotating the disks 17 17 until the desired figures or letters thereon are brought into alinement with the slot 16 in the bottom of the casing between the adjacent edges of the bottom plates 122. It will thus be seen that any desired combination of letters or figures may be obtained by rotating the typedisks, as hereinbefore described, the lowermost type of each disk projecting through a slot 16 between the adjacent edges of the bottom plates 122. The pipe 22 is connected to a suitable source of gas-supply in such a manner that said pipe, together with the branding-tool, may be moved in any desired direction, said pipe 22 having affixed thereto a suitable handle by means of which such motion may be given by the operator to the branding-tool as may be necessary to bring said branding-tool downwardly with the type which project through the bottom thereof resting against the surface of the article to be branded. The handle and continuation of the pipe 22, above described, are not shown in the drawings, any suitable handle being suflicient for the purpose described. Having set the type as hereinbefore described, the gas is turned on through the pipe 22 and enters the interior of the casing 10 through the apertures 20 adjacent to the type-disks 17. Said gas is preferably mixed with air, more or less of which may be admitted to the interior of the tube 22, as may be desired, in any of the well-known ways familiar to those skilled in this art-such as, for instance, by apertures formed in said pipe similar to the apertures in a Bunsen burner. The mixed air and gas passing into the casing, as hereinbefore described, is then lighted through one of the vent-apertures 11, and as soon as the type becomes thoroughly heated the user grasps the handle and presses the brandingtool downwardly, lowering the casing until the faces ofthe type contact with the surface of the article to be branded. The tool is then raised after being held in contact with the article the necessary length of time and the operation repeated on other articles as often as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to secure, is

1. A branding-tool comprising in its construction a hollow casing rovided with apertures in the walls thereof,D a type-disk journaled to rotate in said casing and projecting through the bottom thereof, means to lock said type-disk against rotation, a gas-burner IOO IOS

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in the interior of said casing, and a pipe connected to said burner and projecting therefrom outside said casing.

2. A branding-tool comprising in its construction a hollow casing provided with apertures in the walls thereofl a series of typedisks journaled to rotate in said casing and projecting through the bottom thereof, a gasburner" in the interior of said casing, a pipe connected to said burner and projecting therefrom outside said casing, and bottom plates slidable on said casing and adapted to engage said type-disks and lock them against rotation.

3. A branding-tool comprisin in its construction a hollow casing rovi ed With apertures in the walls thereo a series of typedisks journaled to rotate in said casing and projecting through the bottom thereof, a U- shaped gas-burner adjacent to said typedislis and provided With apertures in aline- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set. my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- IIGSSBS.

MORTIMER P. SULLIVAN. Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GrooDING7 d ANNIE J. DAILEY.j 

